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Programming efficient piece part production: multi-task machining requires advanced CNC tools. (Software).

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Today's manufacturers in the US are faced with numerous challenges from a global market place. Offshore suppliers have various advantages ranging from government subsidies to vast pools of lower cost labor. To many American OEMs, producing parts overseas is often done to just stay competitive as others source parts offshore.

Certainly when it comes to production variables, American manufacturers do not have the option of producing goods locally at the same labor rate of overseas facilities. But there is another option, which is coming into play, which minimizes the advantage that cheap offshore labor offers. American companies are adopting new technologies and leveraging them for a competitive advantage. Multi-tasking machine tools, a new breed of CNC machine tools being developed, minimize the amount of manual operator involvement to produce the part. As a result, multi-task machining is becoming one of the fastest growing segments of CNC machine tools.

The number of machine tools and the number of setups required to produce a part significantly increase the cost, as well as the potential for introducing errors, to produce it.

Multi-task machining CNC machine tools minimize the human factor in production by completely machining a part from start to finish. This is accomplished by an extremely versatile configuration consisting...

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